Kennesaw State University's Bailey School of Music (BSOM) will celebrate the two thousand twenty-three release of a new album by Prof and composer-in-residence Laurence Sherr with a concert on Wednesday, March fifteen, at 7:30 p.m. Sherr will allow comment throughout the program, accompanied by various musicians performing ions the album. The music honors the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, and, more universally, the plights of all who have suffered loss or been displaced, whether by personal

circumstances or by historical events such as genocide, war, political upheavals, and climate change. Sherr explains that his "music strives to promote greater understanding, tolerance, and respect for others in our globally connected world." He delves deeply into the spirit of resilience with his new album "Fugitive Footsteps: Remembrance Music." While he does not shy away [musically] pointing to suffering and despair, he also paints a vivid picture of quiet and active opposition, of hope, of renewal, and, eventually, of overcoming adversity.